40th Tango Community meeting at ALBA

From TANGO Devices to LLM Tools: A Model Context Protocol Server for Elettra 2.0

9 Jun 2026, 17:35

10m

Maxwell Auditorium (ALBA Synchrotron)

Short Talk Community Device Classes, Tools, and Applications Community Device Classes, Tools, and Applications

Speaker

Alessio Igor Bogani (Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste)

Description

Modern synchrotron facilities expose thousands of TANGO devices, requiring coordinated control of complex operations from simple queries to fast feedback loops. Elettra 2.0, the upcoming fourth-generation storage ring at Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste, significantly increases this complexity with orders-of-magnitude higher brilliance, MHz-scale feedback rates, and greatly expanded network bandwidth, challenging traditional GUI- and script-based control paradigms.We present a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that exposes the full TANGO device hierarchy as a typed, discoverable tool interface for Large Language Model agents, enabling device discovery, attribute access and command execution. The system serves as the TANGO integration layer within the Elettra 2.0 AI-assisted control architecture and is validated against the facility’s physics-based digital twin.